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“The Navajo”– Eighteen-in-one sampler
Date:	1993
Artist:	Sarah Paul Begay, born 1956
Clan:	Tábaahá, born for Honágháahnii (Water’s Edge, He Walks-Around People)
Size:	8' x 5'
Count:	32 wefts/inch

“A prize-winning weaver from Indian Wells, Sarah Paul Begay has expanded the sampler concept to create a multilayered design that dazzles the eye. She dedicates this rug to her father, the late Raymond Paul, who was a medicine man and ye'ii bicheii dancer. He is depicted as the third to last dancer, who is ‘looking out at me,’ Sarah says.” —Ann Hedlund